Sophos

Troj/Khoobe-B

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Characteristics
  • Installs itself in the registry
Included in our products from July 2006 (4.07)
Protection available since 19 May 2006 09:22:56 (GMT)
Detected by All Sophos products

Action

More Information

Troj/Khoobe-B is a Trojan for the Windows platform.

When first run the Trojan copies itself to \Arquivos de programas\Messenger\msnmgr.exe and creates the file <Windows>\wmedia.dat. The file wmedia.dat can be safely removed.

The following registry entry is set:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
MSN Messenger
\Arquivos de programas\Messenger\msnmgr.exe

The Trojan logs keypresses entered into certain windows such as Internet Explorer and MSN Messenger applications. Stolen data is sent to a remote attacker.

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